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Wen stressed Beijing’s theme of peaceful development to Japan’s parliament as part of a three-day trip weighted more with symbolic gestures than real breakthroughs in feuds over energy, territory and history.

Wearing a dark blue track suit, Wen jogged about for 30 minutes from 6:30 a.m. in Yoyogi park with Chinese Ambassador to Japan Wang Yi, joined in morning exercises with local citizens and even demonstrated his skills in the Chinese martial art of taijiqua

He pointed out that Japanese government officials and leaders have repeatedly shown an attitude of remorse and apology to the countries that suffered under Japan’s wartime actions. He said China positively values these attitudes.

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A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday that China would like to learn from Japan and work more closely with Japan in the energy sector.

“China accounted for more than 60 percent of Japan’s outsourced software trade in 2006 and has become the country’s biggest software outsourcing base,” said Mine Shentaro, of the Japan External Trade Organization based in Dalian, northeast China’s Liaonin

China surpassed the United States as the world’s second-largest exporter in the middle of last year, according to figures released Thursday by the World Trade Organization, and the Asian country is pulling further and further ahead.

Wen’s failure, so far, to mention directly the Yasukuni Shrine, as well as Abe’s recent denial of the military’s coercion of women into sex slavery during World War II, is likely to have come as a relief to his hosts.